RCP:
Romney Support Falls Back in States He Won
By Erin McPike – February 7, 2012Under the original election calendar, the Romney campaign foresaw victories in New Hampshire and Nevada as a firewall protecting the candidate’s path to the GOP nomination: Post big wins in both states, use the momentum to get a major win in Florida, and then lock up the whole thing. Nevada ended up moving its nominating contest back to follow the Sunshine State’s, but Romney still posted double-digit victories in all three contests.
And so everything’s gone according to plan.
There’s just one problem: After waging warfare on his GOP competitors in each of those elections — all in swing states that could be critical in a November matchup against President Obama — Romney has left those contests less popular than when he started campaigning in earnest.
Newt needs to be pounding this home. Romney’s weaknesses are right there in plain sight. Much is being made of everything Romney has won thus far, but in his wake is a serious collapse in support.
Obama smiles a little smile.
This has, of course, been the Romneyites’ underlying-and-still-unresolved problem all along, and is the real reason The Mitten didn’t get in there and “slug it out” with the other contenders for the GOP crown in the early going.
He tried to stay aloof as long as possible, diving directly into the fray – with a flourish of half-truths and outright lies about his opponents for the nomination – only when the field narrowed, and it became absolutely necessary. That’s due to the factor that’s even now diminishing his numbers: Romney’s a phony “moderate”, a RINO who’s been trying for years now to “fly just below the radar”, and the more sincerely moderate and/or conservative voters see of him and hear from him, the more obvious this becomes.
It’s why he seldom manages to draw more than 1/4 to 1/3 of the available votes, even in the most favorable (to him) of circumstances (i.e., out West, in “Mormon country”, or in FL, where the ex-Jerseyites/NooYawkers dig his Obama-Lite schtick). He’s a phony, a fraud, a say-anything-just-get-elected, log-rolling, Big-Gubmint RINO, and it shows through on closer contact. People don’t like that, they don’t want that, they know, in the end, he’ll go whatever way he thinks the “smart money” is going, and can’t really hold true to any sort of basic principle – other than “get elected” – no matter what he says.
He’s therefore, in the end, a loser – and the more he campaigns openly, the worse it gets.
Really sucks to be him, right?…
meh….there’s little difference in the three
with obama, the country gets driven off a cliff and goes into free fall
romney will be like riding a bike down a 60 degree hill
gingrich will not be as bad…only 55 degrees
any way you look at it, we are going down hill, and the crash at the bottom will not be pleasant